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Fine Arts
May 15, 1879 issue

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The article presents information about the fifty-fourth exhibition of the Academy Design. The exhibition contains enough vital and powerful American work to make it a striking success. But this is the merit of the profane, not of the Levites within the temple. A few fine portraits, a selection of sincere and closely-studied genre, a range of landscapes filled with sympathy and feeling, have been provided by outside contributors, and compose the excellence which rewards popular attention. The remedy of the Academy for its infelicitous attitude, in its own house, would seem to be to absorb the worthy new material as sedulously as it can.

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ART -- Exhibitions; LEARNED institutions & societies; DESIGN; LEVITES; PORTRAITS; LANDSCAPE
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